Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Taniwel in Indonesia

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Taniwel in Indonesia. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000bu2i. Unique identifier: us2000bu2i. Exact location, longitude 128.9059° East, latitude -2.7109° South, depth = 37.84 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.84 km (24 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:13:38 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/11/17 / 2017-11-17 13:13:38 / November 17, 2017 @ 1:13 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the event was 70 km (43 miles) from Amahai (c. 47 700 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Amahai (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 50 km ENE of Taniwel, Indonesia.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	128.9059° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-2.7109° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	37.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	50km ENE of Taniwel, Indonesia	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-17 13:13:38	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-28 09:18:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	271	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	3.345	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.21 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us2000bu2i	Id of event.
Event Code	2000bu2i	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000bu2i,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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